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MAYFIELD, Kentucky — Night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles at Mayfield Consumer Products, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went out to seek shelter. For Autumn Kirks, that meant tossing aside wax and fragrance buckets to make an improvised safe place. She glanced away from her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, and when she looked back, he was gone. Later in the day, she got…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO, AP National Writer MAYFIELD, Ky. — Judy Burton’s hands shivered as she gazed up at what had been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the closet, through the building’s shredded walls. Across the street, her church was boarded up. A few blocks away, the spire was ripped away from the town’s grand courthouse, its roof caved in. The restaurant where neighbors met for lunch, too, was lost…

By WLEX News New Albany, Ind. — Communities in western Kentucky have been forever changed by the recent tornado. Dozens lost their lives, thousands of homes were destroyed, and towns are left unrecognizable. Winds from the storms were so powerful, that items from affected areas flew away for hundreds of miles. Remnants of the storm brought a piece of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, to the driveway of Katie Posten, in New Albany, Indiana. Crossing the bridge over…

Winds from the storms in Kentucky were so powerful, items from the affected areas flew away for hundreds of thousands of miles. Remnants of the storm brought of piece of Dawson Springs, Kentucky to Albany, Indiana. Show Transcript mhm. Crossing the bridge over the Ohio River is one way to get from Kentucky to indiana. That’s where Katie Posten lives in New Albany. The windows getting so cold, there are no signs of damage in…

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MAYFIELD, Ky. — The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states. Tornadoes in December are unusual, but not unheard of. But the ferocity and path length of Friday night’s tornadoes likely put them in a category of their own, meteorologists say. One of the twisters…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states. Tornadoes in December are unusual, but not unheard of. B ut the ferocity and path length of Friday night’s tornadoes likely put them in a category of…

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A decades-old family photo from a home in Kentucky turned up more than 150 miles away in Indiana on Saturday after apparently being whipped up into the debris of deadly tornadoes that tore through the region. “Walked out to my car in New Albany, Indiana and found this picture stuck to the window,” Katie Posten wrote in a post on Facebook. Walked out to my car in New Albany, IN and…

MAYFIELD, Ky. — Disaster-aid and humanitarian groups are mobilizing to help tornado victims and setting up dedicated funds for donations to support their efforts. Here’s a look at some of the relief being provided and ways to donate. American Red Cross The American Red Cross is making it easy to send a quick $10 donation simply by texting “REDCROSS” addressed to the number, 90999. Other donations can be made by calling 800-733-2767 or visiting redcross.org…

MAYFIELD, Ky. — Rescuers combed through fields of wreckage after a tornado outbreak roared across the middle of the U.S., leaving dozens dead and communities in despair. A twister carved a track that could rival the longest on record as the stormfront smashed apart a candle factory, crushed a nursing home and flattened an Amazon distribution center. “I pray that there will be another rescue. I pray that there will be another one or two,”…

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A devastating tornado outbreak has killed dozens of people in the Midwest, and the most significant damage was seen at an occupied candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas. Search and rescue teams are scouring the rubble at these sites in hopes of finding survivors but didn’t yet have a number for how many have died. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he fears tornadoes…

At least 50 people are likely dead after multiple tornadoes barreled through southwestern Kentucky late Friday, according to Gov. Andy Beshear. “We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians, probably end up closer to 70 to 100 lost lives,” Beshear said at a briefing Saturday morning, calling the storms that hit the state “the most severe tornado event in Kentucky’s history.” Preliminary investigations indicate four tornadoes may have hit the state,…

At least two people were killed Friday night when a reported tornado ripped through an Arkansas nursing home, and emergency crews in southern Illinois were also responding to reports of injuries at an Amazon warehouse after a roof collapsed amid storms there. Craighead County Judge Marvin Day told The Associated Press that a tornado struck the Monette Manor nursing home at about 8:15 p.m., trapping 20 people inside as the building collapsed. Five people had…

HONOLULU — Relentless rain in Hawaii has left parts of the state under the threat of “significant and life-threatening flooding,” the National Weather Service in Honolulu said Monday night, with some areas already tallying more than a foot of rain over a 48-hour span. Sheets of drenching rain came down as low-lying roads pooled with water, forcing drivers to navigate the flooded roadways. The western Hawaiian Islands are under a flood watch through Tuesday afternoon,…

By CALEB JONES, Associated Press HONOLULU — A strong storm packing high winds and extremely heavy rain flooded roads and downed power lines and tree branches across Hawaii, with officials warning Monday of potentially worse conditions ahead. The National Weather Service said the storm brings the threat of “catastrophic flooding” in the coming days as a low pressure system slowly moves from east to west and lingers on the edge of the archipelago. “Now is…